Re: KDE3 and KDE2 side by side

[Rob Andrews <rob@impure.org.uk>]

[Nicolai P Guba wrote in newsgate.debian.kde]
 > > Multiple versions of KDE can not be installed into the same hierarchy
 > > and this is not a limitation of Debian, it is a limitation of how KDE
 > > works.  You can of course have one version in /usr and one somewhere
 > > else like /opt or /usr/local.
 > Why is this a limitation of how KDE works.  I don't understand.  What would 
 > KDE have to do so that this is possible?

It's down to where things get installed. 'kicker' (the panel), goes into
/usr/bin in both kde 2 and kde 3. The majority of kde components will be
like this.

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